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What do Gatorade, toothbrushes and small plastic tubing have in common?

They’re all essential materials for the projects London’s Maker Bus will be rolling out across the city this week.

The Maker Bus is an old school turned mobile “makerspace” that encourages Londoners to build, create and learn about technology by taking things apart.

A series of pop-up projects with the London Public Library will be the first large-scale public campaign for the Maker Bus.

“Most of the stuff we’ve been doing is us minus the bus. Now it will be us plus the bus,” said Ryan Hunt, a Maker Bus co-founder.

Hunt, along with the rest of the Maker Bus team — Western University students Beth Compton, Kim Martin and James Graham — will bring crafts and hands-on demonstrations to the library.

“The theme for the summer reading club of ‘Eureka!’ was all about exploration, trying new things, creativity. So Maker Bus fit with our theme,” Jalna branch librarian Jennifer Quinton said.

Kids will make books and turn electric toothbrushes into robots.

The bus began as a way for Compton, Martin and Hunt to get to a digital humanities conference in Nebraska.

Turns out, it was cheaper to buy a bus than to rent one.

“So we said, ‘If we buy a bus, what are we going to do with it when we get home?’” Compton said.

The London community donated $2,900 to a crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo, which was enough to buy the bus and begin repairs.

“It was really important for us for it to be a crowd-funded campaign, because we wanted it to be London’s bus,” Compton said.

Moving forward, the team wants to involve more Londoners in the Maker Bus.

“You don’t have to be a technological wizard to be a maker. People who do canning are makers, people who do sewing are makers,” Hunt said. “As long as you’re passionate about building things you can be part of the maker movement.”